Many a time, one feels exasperated dealing with long URL. This is all the more irritating when you have limited space for conveying messages along with URL. Examples are that of

sms and social networking websites with limited spaces for communication and chatting. It is here that one would prefer to shorten long URLs. Happily, Google url shortener has a quick remedy for such cases. Write the full long URL, and it generates automatically a shorter version. This one replaces the longer one, and is as effective.